Saturday, September 09, 2006

Eileen, Pedro & Penelope

My mate Eileen (recently abandoned by long term toy boy Mike) is doing well. We met on Wed to eat and go to the cinema - as idlers do.

She didn’t fancy subtitles so we saw ‘You me and Dupree’ instead of ‘Volver’.

I thought this would be OK for 2 reasons:

1) Faced with the same choice Marina Hyde had done the same thing (footnote to Tuesday’s G2 column)2) Matt Dillon was in ‘Dupree’ and he was great in ‘Crash’

BAD CALL!It was totally unfunny, all the problems were sorted out in the end by Michael Douglas saying ‘Sorry’ and it wasted 108 minutes of my life. Matt was born in 1964 so my sums make him 42 - much too old to play a gullible newly wed.

So, the next day I sneaked back to see ‘Volver’. I rarely go to the cinema alone. I’m worried that someone might see me and think I’m a saddo. Come to think of it I’m more of a saddo for worrying about it. At the 2.30 showing the audience consisted of a fat girl eating popcorn and me. Would they still show the film if we hadn’t turned up?

‘Volver’ was great. Penelope Cruz is gorgeous, sexy and a very convincing actress. If I were a bloke/lesbian she would be top of my list. She reminds me of a young Sophia Loren enhanced with a bit of Natalie Wood.

Pedro Almodovar’s interiors are high Kitsch. He combines turquoise, red and bright orange and adds bright poppies, fairy lights and Tretchikoff style paintings. His films hit all the senses at once. The plot was good too.

This ‘Tretchikoff style’ portrait (which is one of my secret collection) looks a bit like Penelope in the roleKAZ I just read that Almodovar made Cruz wear a “false ass” (arse to us) to make her character, Raimunda, resemble an Italian film heroine of the 1950s.Spot on with Sophia then.

Nowt sad about going to the cinema alone, I did last week to see this very film. I never understand why people need to go wuith someone especially on a date. After all you are not going to talk with the other person are you.

Going to the cinema on your own is fab. I used to do it a lot - or sometimes I'd go to a film with a friend and we'd wind up in different auditoriums. You don't always need friends along to enjoy yourself. I wasn't going to go and see Volver, but you have swayed me with your tantalising Tretchikoff pictures.

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